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The Oldest Transcripts of Theodosios' Office for St Symeon Myroblytos

Summary/Abstract: The first Office for St Symeon Myroblytos, the founder of the Nemanja dynasty and first Serbian saint, is compiled by his son, St. Sava. It has a simple structure: it contains, as it was usual of the Typikon used at that time, one section read at vespers service and one canon for the saint read at the matins. Another Office for St. Symeon (according to the Jerusalem Typikon) was composed by the Hilandar monk Theodosios. It is not clear when exactly this second piece was written. Yet it is probable that less than a century passed between the compilation of Sava’s and Teodosios’ Offices. Thus it is possible that the new hymnographic piece dedicated to St. Symeon was created before the end of the thirteenth century. The manuscript tradition of the Office is rich—more than thirty copies are known, the oldest of them dating from the fourteenth century. The article deals with the oldest preserved transcripts, namely those from the fourteenth century—MS II 109 from the collection of the Trinity Monastery, Plevlja, dating from the 1350/1360; MS 126 from the Hilandar Monastery from the middle of the fourteenth century; MS 11, a Service Menaion for February from the Archive of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts from 1380s-1390s; and MS Cod. slave 21, a Menaion for February from the National Library in Paris from the last decade of the fourteenth century.

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